Twisted - A Film by Laurel Chiten

DMRF has partnered with the creators of the award winning documentary TWISTED.

After a car accident when she was 17, TWISTED director Laurel Chiten woke up in an ambulance with a collapsed lung and a head wound requiring stitches. She was discharged days later, apparently healed. The following spring her head started jerking back and forth, up and down “like someone else was in control of my body.” Eventually doctors diagnosed Chiten with dystonia, a neurological disorder that forces muscles into abnormal, often painful, movements or postures that can cause the body to twist, as though the brain has a mind of its own.

In TWISTED, Chiten reveals the agonies and challenges of dystonia by interweaving the stories of three sufferers as they seek treatment, confront the disease and ponder weighty decisions.

In Canada DMRF has had six successful showings of TWISTED, Halifax, Waterloo, Edmonton and Toronto, Sunnybrook Hospital and Vancouver. Planned for 2012: Toronto Western Hospital, April 27 and Montreal Neurological Institute, May 10.

If you are interested in a screening of TWISTED you can contact info@dystoniacanada.org

Twisted Showings are sponsored by the Medtronic Foundation